Perhaps it'd be better to redo the Last Saved notification from
scratch. For starters; it'd probably be more useful if it displayed
the amount of time since the last save, instead of the time and date
of the last save. I just want it to tell me that I haven't saved for
10 minutes, not what the time and date was 10 minutes ago.
I think toggling the header and toolbar in and out of view is poor
design too. I'd suggest getting rid of the header altogether, moving
the file name and save time info to the right hand side of the menu
bar, then having notifications, like Kernel Busy, appear as toasts at
the bottom right of the page.
Given the amount of white space between options in the menu bar, and
that some of those menus could be combined, the tool bar could
probably be incorporated into the menu bar too. A single, busy bar
would beat three almost empty ones, and free up a little more precious
real estate in the workspace.
Please don't think I'm hating on the Notebook design ~ I actually
really like it overall ~ but I think the toggling toolbars need
reviewing.
Just my tuppence.
Carl
On 6 November 2012 23:50, Jon Wilson <jsw@fnal.gov> wrote:
> It might not be too difficult to implement a switch (in user profile, or
> per-notebook, or whatever) that turns autosaving on and off. Then those who
> like autosave have it, and those who don't like it, don't have it.
>> Of course, the ideal solution would to somehow integrate with a version
> control system, so that you can have autosave but still roll back to a
> previous version...
> Regards,
> Jon Wilson
>>> On 11/06/2012 05:39 PM, Carl Smith wrote:
>> Just for the record: Ctrl-S saves on Chromium on Lubuntu.
>> Google Docs autosaves with almost every change and it works really badly for
> me. Everyone has there own take on these UX elements. I vote for Trust the
> Developer - if they want stuff saved, they should say so.
>> On Nov 6, 2012 11:24 PM, "Tom" <tmbdev@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> "You might like autosave, but I personally often want to revert to my last
>> saving point. Then autosave is really annoying for me, I am not the only
>> one."
>>>> I don't care about autosave per se. What I care about is that a tool that
>> I spend hours in every day and recommend to others is robust against
>> failures, like all the other tools I use regularly: I should be able to pull
>> the power plug on my computer and not lose more than a minute or so of work
>> even if I never saved anything.
>>>> "If you came up with a good patch, we'll be happy to see you open a Pull
>> Request on github that improve situation."
>>>> It is impossible to come up with a "good patch" under the constraints you
>> list. The question is whether those constraints are more important to the
>> iPython developers than preventing data loss.
>>>> Tom
>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Matthias BUSSONNIER
>> <bussonniermatthias@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Le 31 oct. 2012 à 11:53, Tom a écrit :
>>>>>> > I just lost an hour of work again because Chrome and iPython notebooks
>>> > conspire against me.
>>> Sorry about that,
>>>>>> >
>>> > iPython notebooks take forever to complete when there is a lot of
>>> > output. This is really a problem by itself. Saving iPython notebooks
>>> > requires navigating with the mouse to click on a tiny button somewhere at
>>> > the top; this is distracting and interrupts work. There is no keyboard
>>> > shortcut.
>>>>>> Ctrl+s should save in some browser/os
>>> Ctrl+m, s should always do.
>>>>>> It is in the doc, and on the keyboard shortcut help (C-m,h)
>>> If it does not work, bug report.
>>>>>> >
>>> > Chrome compounds the problem by popping up a dialog box every few
>>> > seconds asking whether I want to kill the page (and hence lose all my data)
>>> > or continue.
>>>>>> Why is that ? It shouldn't. Which version of chrome do you have. Which
>>> version of IPython ?
>>> Is it the "this page/script have stop responding message ?" I never had
>>> it with IPython notebook.
>>>>>> You can open a bug report and we'll try to figure out why this happen,
>>> this should make your workflow a lot easier.
>>>>>> > Chrome also lacks any option to interrupt JavaScript without losing
>>> > the entire page. (I think Firefox has other problems, which is why I don't
>>> > use it.)
>>>>>> >
>>> > Asking me to confirm throwing away hours of work that are on the screen
>>> > and in memory and should be trivially savable really adds insult to injury.
>>> > It's a conspiracy of multiple usability problems in iPython and
>>> > Chrome, any of which should be easy to fix for the developers.
>>>>>> You might like autosave, but I personally often want to revert to my last
>>> saving point.
>>> Then autosave is really annoying for me, I am not the only one.
>>>>>> A persistant notebook without having to explicitly save is not that easy.
>>> Hacking something that does the job most of the time is not that hard,
>>> but doing it the right way, not so much.
>>>>>> * Consider fact that some people do not use the notebook on
>>> localhost and hence saving might be **very** bandwidth consuming.
>>> * Same notebook can be opened several times constantly
>>> overwriting each other if autosave is on.
>>> * Oops I deleted this cell... I just have rollback to previous
>>> save version.... Too late....( no we can't Ctrl-Z cell deletion yet)
>>> * Current API does not allow to save with another name, people
>>> rely on our API, we can't change without deprecation warning first.
>>> * None of us are real js developers, all of us work on our little
>>> free time freely on IPython.
>>> * we would like to differentiate persistence/saving/version
>>> controlling
>>>>>>>>> Still,
>>> You can have a look at Min's extension to autosave.
>>>https://github.com/minrk/ipython_extensions>>>>>> Using custom js in your profile on 0.13+ it shouldn't be too hard to
>>> enable autosaving by default.
>>> Ask if you need help, but with above extension and docs, it shouldn't be
>>> too hard to figure out.
>>>>>> If you came up with a good patch, we'll be happy to see you open a Pull
>>> Request on github that improve situation.
>>> You can also help by reviewing/testing the current opened PR so that
>>> we'll get more time to work on new stuff like autosaving.
>>>>>> Hope we'll solve most of your issues.
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>> --
>>> Matthias
>>>>>>>>> >
>>> > Tom
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